bokub/chalk-animation

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2182 stars · 76 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A Node.js library that renders colorful animated text effects (rainbow, pulse, glitch, radar, neon, karaoke) in the terminal, built on chalk. It also ships a CLI mode for animating text from the command line.

Use cases

• animate colorful text in terminal output
• add a rainbow spinner-style banner to a CLI tool
• show an animated loading message in a Node.js script
• render neon or glitch text effects in the console
• animate CLI output text with stop/start control
• make terminal scripts more visually engaging

When to choose

• you want eye-catching animated text in a Node.js CLI or script
• you need programmatic control over animation start/stop, speed, and text replacement
• you want a tiny dependency with both library and CLI usage

When to avoid

• you need static text coloring only (use chalk directly)
• your output must be machine-readable or logged to files
• you need animations outside a TTY/terminal environment
• you need actively developed features (last release 2022)

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

animation cli logging developer-tools cli cross-platform chalk terminal-output console-effects npm-package ascii-animation command-line nodejs

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